regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations … WTO legal framework in light of our results, arguing that it does a reasonably thorough job of policing regulatory …

This paper empirically examines recently declassified data from the GATT/WTO on tariff bargaining. We document eight …

Despite the important roel played by GATT in the world economy, economist have nto developed a unified theoretical …

export subsidies can be given a world-wide efficiency rationale. In this paper, we offer one such treatment in the context of … export subsidy programs can lead to inefficiencies, and importing countries and the world as a whole can be better off when …Why do governments seek restrictions on the use of export subsidies through reciprocal trade agreements such as GATT …

GATT and its successor, the WTO. We show that GATT's principle of reciprocity serves to neutralize the world-price effects … provided that the externa- lities associated with trade intervention travel through world prices. We then establish that …

How should the issue of domestic labor standards be handled in the GATT/ WTO? This question is part of a broader debate … trading partner is then free to issue a tariff response to stabilize export prices. We show that both approaches deliver govts …

membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds …A fundamental objective of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations is to improve the trading prospects of developing … countries. The 2001 declaration from the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, commits the member governments to …